TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Why? What other APIs should my apps (or the apps I explicitly want to authorize for this purpose) use to access my private data and my phone call audio?
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
You jest, but passkeys seem to have literally been invented to address something like: "Keys to your doors can be used by anyone to open those doors, regardless of your knowledge or presence". Which is a problem only if the thir
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> beamed power is lossy enough to require more panels[1] What kills that is simply costs of land. You have to put these larger rectennas somewhere, and land ain't getting cheaper.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yes, but what about allowing me to run adb commands on my phone with my consent , and especially delegating that privilege to "strangers", again, with my ( one-time ) consent - by which I mean authorizing apps to run with eleva
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
This is like "how do you ensure you can bring back home all the groceries you bought" kind of problem. Space 101. We know how much heat we can bleed off, how, and how fast, and this gives us bounds on how much power we can use, an
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Anything can fit into CVE. "An app can bypass OS security system with certain setting enabled" is absolutely a valid CVE. We have countless examples every day of vendor apps bypassing OS security systems because they're allow
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Right, that too. But that's a reason to recommend regular reboots[0], not to force them, and "3 days of inactivity" is a suspiciously specific time that I also saw mentioned in Android settings somewhere the other day. -- [
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
It's mimicking humans in how humans mimick each other in everything they do.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> But it's not like it's inventing this stuff from scratch / first principles. It has seen this kind of tech before by consuming all publicly available source code and books etc. (And that's ok, but let's be hon
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
What would that be useful for anyway? Sounds like something aimed to prevent people from reusing their old/secondary devices for IoT.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> This is a CVE by any definition and you'd be screaming your head off if any other OS would allow this kind of permission bypass. Or perhaps they wouldn't? CVEs aren't holy scripture, and "security" isn't
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Of course this looks entirely different when your corporate superstructure has a long and active history of developing military equipment.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
So has SpaceX. It's becoming standard practice these days.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Who are the customers though? Honest question, I'd like to understand it. For me, anything other than current best available SOTA for any task is unacceptable. The only routing rule I need is "the most powerful model I still have
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> Could we have giant nuclear reactors in space? We could. The usual stumbling block is how to ship fissile material upwell without the risk of a launch failure spreading highly radioactive material over several countries. > What&#
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
You may be right about the scale of also-ran operations, even though I disagree with the core comparison. Unlike crypto coins, which require superlinearly growing energy waste just to sustain their basic guarantees, and were created to solv
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> Is my borderline childish understanding of basic physics THAT off because I cannot see the value or utility (beyond a small smear of niche edge cases) of space-based compute? Don't worry, most of the people online didn't ge
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
All security is always a matter of cost. Clown theater starts once you lose track of it, and start doing security for security's sake. RE obfuscation and nation states - nation states have finite budgets too, both in terms of resources
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
How about CNC mill being slop trained on millions of hours of blacksmith and machinist experience?
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Nobody is forcing you to read it. If you lose some interesting information because you don't like how it sounds, that's your loss.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> The "good bots" which identify themselves and follow the rules are easy enough to block, so not a problem. And then they get blocked, which is a problem. In particular, the modern agentic AI tools interacting with web servi
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Major AI companies aren't indiscriminately scrapping any more than search engines were (which themselves caused some problems in the past too, until that got sorted out). Your gripe is with SEO people and content marketers. I'd be
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> But people are free to not publish things or post things online with a more restrictive license. Not that a license stops things from being indexed. Right. In fact, people are also free to publish things with licenses that condition
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> electoral manipulation That must be the poster child of the most boring and meaningless accusation thrown around new technologies (after the data center water scare, which was just plain bogus). We've heard this non stop since C
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yup. People still don't believe when I say that we've cracked universal translation with LLMs. That's despite the proof being in their hands; anyone with any SOTA multimodal LLM app (read: Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini) with &qu
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yeah, really, masses are fine. I mean gross and boring mostly, but fine. Problem is when entrepreneurs get their hands on such tech, because they invariably put it to use for scamming and cheating people (read: marketing). It's the b
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Aren't employees of US tech companies typically also shareholders, by virtue of part of their compensation being paid in company stock?
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> The thing is, people were scraping and monetizing other people's websites long before the current LLM fad. The difference is the magnitude of the problem. > In other words: it sucks when people are using your work in a manne
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
I bounced off that at first, too, but I'm glad I revisited. It's exactly what I wanted from most news. All the relevant information up front. None of the bullshit of regular news reporting.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
No, there wasn't. The step decline started when SaaS was embraced, and everything turned into webshit.

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